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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>GENESIS</span>
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CHAPTER 15
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Abram desires offspring—The Lord promises him seed in number as the stars—He believes the promise—His seed shall be strangers in Egypt—Then, after four generations, they shall inherit Canaan.
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After</span> these things the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came unto Abram in a <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/15/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Visions.">vision</a>, saying, <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/15/1b" mark="b" type="C" title="Gen. 26: 24; 1 Ne. 22: 17; TG Fearfulness.">Fear</a> not, Abram: I <i>am</i> thy <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/15/1c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Protection, Divine.">shield</a>, <i>and</i> thy exceeding great reward.
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And Abram said, Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God,</span> what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/15/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 24: 2.">steward</a> of my house <i>is</i> this Eliezer of Damascus?
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And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/15/3a" mark="a" type="Q" title="HEB a son of my house; Gen. 14: 14.">one</a> born in my house is mine heir.
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And, behold, the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>came</i> unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
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And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/15/5a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB count.">tell</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/15/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 10: 22; Neh. 9: 23; D&C 132: 30.">stars</a>, if thou be able to <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/15/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Chr. 27: 23.">number</a> them: and he said unto him, So shall thy <sup>d</sup><a href="gen/15/5d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Seed of Abraham.">seed</a> be.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="gen/15/6a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Gen. 15: 9-12 (Appendix).">And</a> he <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/15/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Faith.">believed</a> in the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; and he counted it to him for <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/15/6c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Righteousness.">righteousness</a>.
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And he said unto him, I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/15/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 32: 18.">inherit</a> it.
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And he said, Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God,</span> whereby shall I <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/15/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 6: 17 (17-18); 2 Kgs. 20: 8 (8-9); Luke 1: 18 (18-19).">know</a> that I shall inherit it?
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And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
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And he took unto him all these, and <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/15/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 34: 18 (18-19).">divided</a> them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
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And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
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And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/15/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="JS-H 1: 15 (15-17).">darkness</a> fell upon him.
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And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/15/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Bondage of, in Egypt; TG Strangers.">stranger</a> in a land <i>that is</i> not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/15/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 1: 11 (10-11); 1 Ne. 17: 25 (23-25).">afflict</a> them four hundred years;
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And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/15/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 2: 24; 1 Ne. 5: 15; 1 Ne. 19: 10; Mosiah 12: 34; Alma 36: 28; D&C 136: 22.">come</a> out with great <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/15/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 12: 36.">substance</a>.
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And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/15/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Old Age.">old</a> age.
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But in the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/15/16a" mark="a" type="G" title="Note in Ex. 6: 16-20 that four generations of Levi’s descendants are named; they include (1) Levi, (2) Kohath, (3) Amram, (4) Moses; Ex. 6: 19 (16-20); TG Israel, Bondage of, in Egypt.">fourth</a> generation they shall come <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/15/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 3: 17.">hither</a> again: for the iniquity of the Amorites <i>is</i> not yet <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/15/16c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Ne. 17: 35 (32-35); Alma 37: 31; Hel. 13: 14; Ether 2: 9 (8-10); D&C 61: 31; D&C 101: 11.">full</a>.
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And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/15/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 34: 18 (18-19).">passed</a> between those pieces.
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In the same day the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> made a <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/15/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Abrahamic Covenant.">covenant</a> with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/15/18b" mark="b" type="C" title="Gen. 13: 15 (14-17); Josh. 1: 2 (2-4); TG Israel, Land of; TG Promised Lands.">land</a>, from <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/15/18c" mark="c" type="E" title="IE the Wadi El Arish in northern Sinai; Ex. 23: 31; 1 Kgs. 4: 21.">the</a> river of Egypt unto the great river, the river <sup>d</sup><a href="gen/15/18d" mark="d" type="A" title="Deut. 11: 24 (22-25).">Euphrates</a>:
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The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
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And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
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And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
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